Dates to keep in mind:
February 17th: National Day of Lobbying to Impeach Trump, organized by 50501. This is intended to be in-district lobbying, but I will be surprised if it isn’t supported by protests all over. https://www.mobilize.us/50501missouri-1/c/dday/event/create/
March 28th: The next national No Kings protest.
Action Items to choose from (or do all of them: your choice!), as always, in no particular order. Scroll down to the matching number of your option:
- Demand an investigation of the seizure of Georgia 2020 ballots by the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence
- De-fund/Abolish ICE
- Support S. 2746, the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act
- Continue to Boycott Target and contact them directly
- Help get detainees released
- Four Maine-specific actions
Actions
1) Demand an investigation of the seizure of Georgia 2020 ballots by the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence:
Rather than me attempting to summarize, just read this this article. It’s longish but actually a fun read (I found it kind of fun, anyway), and it’s full of talking points you can use when you contact Senators King and Collins and Representative Golden and demand that they push the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to immediately open an investigation into the recent seizure of Fulton County, Georgia, 2020 ballots by the FBI and Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence. First of all, Gabbard had no business being there, and her explanation for her presence doesn’t add up. Second, well, read the article. If you email rather than (or in addition to) calling, share this article directly, even if you have to copy and paste the whole thing (if their online forms will let you). I’m no lawyer, but it looks like there’s some interesting points here that could all too easily be overshadowed by the Minneapolis/ICE situation. As I said, read it yourself and see what you think.
If you have the energy and interest, you could also contact the heads of both Intelligence committees:
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:
Chair: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)
(202) 224-2353
https://www.cotton.senate.gov/contact/contact-tom
Vice Chair: Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)
(202) 224-2023 https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactPage
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence:
Chair: Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR-1)
(202) 225-4076
https://crawford.house.gov/contact
Vice Chair: Rep. Trent Kelly (R-MS-1)
(202) 225-4306
No email option except for constituents.
2) Defund ICE:
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries seem to be doing their usual thing of falling back to their usual weak stances while calling it “bi-partisanship.” (That’s Jared Golden’s playbook, too.) Their proposed reforms are little more than asking ICE to observe minimum standards of conduct that apply to every law enforcement agency in America. We need to see real reform. The alternative is for us all to live in a country where an uncontrolled paramilitary roams the streets, executing people who are not threatening them, shooting, punching, pepper-spraying and tear-gassing people directly in the face just for exercising their Constitutional right to speak out and bear witness. (Remember the guy who boasted in a text about getting 7 bullet holes with 5 bullets? Or the guy who said, “It’s like Call of Duty!” and was answered by something like, “So cool!”) We need a well-trained, controlled force that does due diligence in identifying and locating illegal aliens who have criminal records or are arrested committing a crime, not these “ICEholes” (I didn’t make that up; I saw it on a protest sign) who are over-armed and under-trained, and who think they are playing army on an Xbox. And who have no clue how to operate inside a city full of innocent bystanders, no idea (or interest in) how to de-escalate tensions, and are too wired and scared to hold back their own violent reactions.
Contact Susan Collins and Angus King and thank them both for voting in favor of the Sanders Amendment which clawed back $75 Billion of the money allocated to ICE and CBP in the “One Big Beautiful Sadistic Bill,” and also thank Senator King for cosponsoring Mark Kelly’s S. 3683, the Stop Excessive Force in Immigration Act of 2026.
Tell them both that more is needed:
- There should be no votes on any DHS funding unless and until the White House commits to removing ICE and CBP forces from our communities and Congress conducts a full investigation into enforcement practices, use of force, and civil rights violations.
- The entire $170 Billion slush fund that was approved for ICE and CBP in that bill should be stripped out, and ICE and CBP must be defunded until they meet standards of conduct for police professionals (including uncovered faces, body cams, identification badges, and an end to the detention and deportation of American citizens and immigrants who are in the U.S. lawfully.
- Stop enforcement at sensitive locations, including hospitals, schools, houses of worship, and community service sites — a critical issue for service providers, faith-based organizations, and community networks.
- End family and child detention and prohibit any new contracts with private detention companies.
- Stop immigration enforcement based on racial profiling or any discriminatory targeting.
- Stop warrantless arrests.
- Ensure accountability for abuses by federal officers and end qualified immunity.
Contact Jared Golden and lay out the same demands for him.
Some other resources for countering ICE:
- Get some whistles to give out in case of ICE appearances. You can get free 3D-printed whistles or just donate to the people doing this here.
- Indivisible’s ICE our for GOOD campaign: https://indivisible.org/campaigns/halt-ice-terror/
- Learn how to reduce the risk of your private data being exposed to the state or right-wing actors while observing ICE’s activities to hold them accountable: https://activistchecklist.org/ice/
- Learn the SALUTE method for documenting the presence of federal agents: https://www.nysylc.org/ice-watch
3) Support S. 2746, the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act:
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), the Ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee (that oversees US banking) has been demanding access to Epstein’s finances. To this end, he introduced S. 2746 (the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act), which would require the Secretary of the Treasury to produce suspicious activity reports relating to Jeffrey Epstein and his associates. Republicans are currently blocking this bill.
Call Senators King and Collins to urge them to cosponsor S. 2746. Also remind them that the list of impeachable offenses that Trump has committed in the first year of his second term is long and clear. It is way past time for Susan Collins to stop supporting Trump, and for Angus King to consider being a little less careful/reasonable.
4) Continue to Boycott Target and contact them directly:
Target has officially sent the police to clear peaceful protestors out of its stores in MN. These protestors were doing sit-ins to demand that Target stop being complicit with ICE. Call 800-440-0680 or email them at guest.service@target.com to tell them to stop collaborating with or supporting ICE and CBP in any way.
5) Help get detainees released:
Two organizations, Nefesh and CLUE, have created a fund to secure the release of Los Angeles community members from immigration detention. This campaign is an opportunity to unite families and free innocent people from ICE detention facilities in the LA area.
CLUE’s Immigrant Detention Bond Fund is the largest fund of its kind in the country. They have been able to get over 100 people released in the past six months. One hundred percent of donations go directly to bonds (minus credit card fees, if that’s how you choose to give). Even better, after each case is resolved, the bond money is returned to CLUE’s fund. That means your donation will go on helping more detained individuals.
You can donate here.
Maine-specific actions:
- See the national DeICE-ing action above
- Learn how to counter Christian Nationalism (from the Washington County Dems):
If you have studied Christian Nationalism at all, you already know it is a threat to democracy and our way of life. It is the philosophical underpinning of Project 2025, whose founders and followers are actively attempting to destroy freedom of religion in our country. If you are interested in learning how to join the fight against it, you can attend a workshop on Countering Christian Nationalism at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ellsworth on Sunday, Feb. 8th, from noon to 1:30pm. Led by members from Multifaith Justice Maine (part of the Maine People’s Alliance), this workshop will consist of two parts: 1) learning about Christian Nationalism, its moral and spiritual framing, political impact, and its support of authoritarianism; and 2) discussing how to implement counter-framing as a multifaith community and use nonviolent civil resistance as a countermeasure.
- Help keep the Maine State House of Representatives blue (from the Washington County Democrats):
The Dems hold the Majority of the state House by a very slim margin. On February 24th, there will be a special election for the Maine House District 94 seat, which was recently vacated by a Democrat. Now Democrat Scott Harriman is running for that seat against a MAGA Barbie-type Republican, and he’ll need all the help he can get to defeat her. (I wonder sometimes how many of these MAGA women are natural blondes…but that is neither here nor there.) Do what you can to support his campaign:
— Send a donation up to $500 to: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/scott-harriman-1
— Join a canvassing effort on a Saturday morning: 2/7, 2/14 or 2/21. To join, sign up here: https://www.mobilize.us/mainedems/event/877498/
— Join a phone bank on a Monday evening 2/9, 2/1, or 2/23. Sign up here: https://www.mobilize.us/mainedems/event/886901/ - Push Maine to pass into law a detention camp profits tax in our state:
Many of DHS’s detention camps are run by private companies paid by taxpayer dollars. For example, CoreCivic has signed contracts to run detention facilities worth over $680 million in taxpayer dollars since last January. They reported $538 million in revenue in the second quarter of 2025. Over the same period, GEO Group made $632 million. So, while the government has claimed it can’t afford to make sure health insurance and childcare affordable to everyone, it has paid more than $1B of our money for detention centers that are no better than concentration camps. And CEOs and shareholders are getting richer than ever from taxpayer dollars.
States can tax corporations doing business within our borders. In California, lawmakers have proposed AB 1633, a bill to aggressively tax the profits of privately-run detention centers and redirect those revenues to immigration-related services.
Contact Governor Janet Mills and your representatives in the Maine State Senate and House of Representatives and urge them to introduce a detention camp profits tax in Maine. CEOs and shareholders can’t be allowed to get rich off the taxpayers by locking up our friends and neighbors.
Reminder: When you call vs when you email via our reps’ websites (best way to contact them in writing), don’t forget to begin with: “Hi, my name is [name] and I’m a constituent calling from [zip code]. That is important, because if they don’t know you’re actually a constituent, your opinion will be ignored.
Contact info:
Angus King
DC: (202) 224-5344
Augusta: (207) 622-8292
Susan Collins
DC: (202) 224-2523
Augusta: (207) 622-8414
Bangor: (207) 945-0417
Chellie Pingree
DC: (202) 225-6116
Portland: (207) 774-5019
Waterville: (207) 873-5713
Jared Golden
DC: (202) 225-6306
Bangor: (207) 249-7400
Caribou: (207) 492-6009
Lewiston: (207) 241-6767
Find your State Representative:
By name: Here
By district: Here
Find your State Senator:
By name: Here
By district: Here
(Please note that for those of you receiving this email who are not represented by Senators or House members in our district, I have to leave it up to you to find the contact info for your own representatives.)
Yours in Civic Action,
Bold Coast Civic Alliance
